Hello, On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the QEMU 2.7.0 release. This release contains 2200+ commits from 189 authors.
You can grab the tarball from our download page here: http://wiki.qemu.org/Download The full list of changes are available at: http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.7 Highlights include: * Multiqueue support for virtio-blk devices * Busy-polling support for virtio-net/vhost-net devices * Live migration support for virtio-gpu 2D displays * Support for Xen paravirtualized USB * VFIO passthrough support for Intel integrated graphics devices * New management interfaces to improve CPU hot plug/unplug * General TCG emulation improvements up to 20% * User-mode networking support for DHCPv6, RDNSS, DNS6, and link-local DNS addresses * Support for building user-mode emulation docker images for use in cross-compiling/testing * ARM: virt machine now has support for NUMA and GICv3 interrupt controller * ARM: new xlnx-zcu102 machine type implementing Xilinx Zynq ZCU102 board * ARM: Xilinx Zynq MP now supports graphics/audio over emulated DisplayPort interface. * ARM: Xilinx Zynq support for KVM on AArch64 hosts * MIPS: Initial GIC support * PPC: many fixes for TCG * PPC: mac99 machine can now boot MacOS 9.1+ * PPC: pseries machine support for CPU hotplug * PPC: pseries machine performance improvements: large/64-bit DMA windows for VFIO-based PCI passthrough, and significant improvements for spapr-llan * s390: support for runtime instrumentation * s390: significant refactoring/improvement of s390 PCI device emulation and hot unplug * x86: CPU hot unplug support based on newer device_add/device_del management interface * x86: q35 machine support for IOMMU emulation * and lots more... Thank you to everyone involved!